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*** ''And'' changed its name to Topeka.com in response to the city changing ''its'' name to Google, Kansas. [http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/different-kind-of-company-name.html Details here.]
** And now, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rznYifPHxDg Google Maps 8-bit] for the [[NES]]. The video itself [[Shown Their Work|shows its work]] by showing that it is for the Famicom, which had networking features the [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] didn't.
* MuggleNet posts absurd news items on April 1st, such as claiming Scholastic would rerelease the books with titles like "[[Harry Potter and Thethe Philosopher's Stone (novel)||Harry Potter and A Super Cool Stone]]", "[[Harry Potter and Thethe Chamber of Secrets (novel)|Harry Potter and A Super SUPER Secret]]", "[[Harry Potter and Thethe Prisoner of Azkaban (novel)|Harry Potter and A Bad Guy Who's Actually Okay]]", "[[Harry Potter and Thethe Goblet of Fire (novel)|Harry Potter and FIREEEEEEEEE!]]", "[[Harry Potter and Thethe Order of Thethe Phoenix (novel)|Harry Potter and A Super Secret House shhh]]", "[[Harry Potter and Thethe Half -Blood Prince (novel)|Harry Potter and A Prince, Like The One You Know]]", and "[[Harry Potter and Thethe Deathly Hallows (novel)|Harry Potter and A Good Versus Evil Fight]]". One year they joined forces with ''The Leaky Cauldron'' by claiming that the two webmasters Emerson and Melissa (who were already being shipped as "Memerson") had gotten married and were combining sites.
* In 2010, the fanfic [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5739114/29/Paradise_in_Death Paradise In Death] rickrolled readers. In text form.
* In 2010, [http://agtp.romhack.net/ Aeon Genesis] finally released their translation of ''[[Tactics Ogre]]'' {{spoiler|in [[Final Fantasy X|Al Bhed]]}}.